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Podcast: Better Edge : A Northwestern Medicine podcast for physicians
Episode: Refining Prostate Cancer Detection Through Prostate MRI
Description: Prostate MRI is changing how clinicians decide when a biopsy is needed and how sampling is targeted to better detect clinically significant prostate cancer. In this episode of Better Edge, Hiten Patel, MD, discusses MRI‑informed risk stratification, including the use of an MRI‑based risk calculator, and how MRI‑targeted biopsy can reduce missed high‑grade disease. The episode also highlights how PSA density informs decision‑making after a negative MRI and how to manage discordant targeted and systematic biopsy results. Dr. Patel reviews lesion characteristics, like size and suspicion score, in the context of follow‑up and treatment in...